Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima If you can GUARANTEE that nothing even APPROACHING those could EVER happen under ANY circumstances Then I will fold to Nuclear Power
Three Mile Island
NO ONE DIED
Fukushima
NO ONE DIED
Chernobyl
essentially a human-made accident through gross mismanagement and neglect, that physically can’t happen with other reactor types (in part because they all have containment buildings now). so yes we can guarantee that nothing even approaching chernobyl will ever happen with modern reactors.
even so chernobyl still killed fewer people than the German Atomausstieg has through increased air pollution because of additional coal being burnt
welcome to team uranium!
Love people using 3 mile island as an example. 3 mile island is an example of where things WORKED, that the failsafes kicked in so only a miniscule amount of radiation was released, which not only didnt kill anyone, but no one was injured, no adverse health effects were caused, and there was no damage to the surrounding environment. Despite the incident, the other reactor continued to run until 2019!
And again: the point isn’t “do you prefer renewables or nuclear”. The point is “everyone fighting againsy nuclear power has further entrenched coal and oil power and caused a LOT more damage to the environment”
At least 901 people were reportedly executed in Iran last year, including about 40 in a single week in December, according to the UN human rights chief.
To those unfamiliar with manual transmissions: this is not a threat, this is a cold, hard declaration of fact. This will happen and there ain’t a damn thing the driver can do about it if they wanted.
hey as someone who worked at a grocery store (albeit not in cart return, just get to see the cart return people a lot): at least at my store, theyre still getting paid whether theyre doing carts or not. but now, theyre just getting paid to do something harder and more annoying when they could be getting paid to stay inside in the AC/heating
“oh but then theyll have to schedule extra people to do the car-” no they arent fucking scheduling extra people because you and a few other people give cart returners a collective extra 30 minutes of work a day, theyre just telling them to work faster when theyre not on cart return because theyre behind. theyll get paid the same whether theyre on bagging duty or cart duty, because the managers yell at you if you get any overtime
in the most literal sense no you are NOT costing the company/“”“creating jobs”“”, youre just making someones day that theyre ALREADY GETTING PAID THE SAME AMOUNT FOR BY THE COMPANY slightly worse and increasing the stress. corporate does not give a single solitary shit. unless yall somehow did enough shit with cart return to add an extra 12 hours a day of work out there, they probably aint even gonna consider adding extra hours for cart return. Theyll schedule extra baggers on expected generally busy days of course, like weekends/holidays, but they wont just say “oof a lot of people leaving carts in weird places!! better add some more hours exclusively for carts!!”
you know the ACTUAL leftist thing to do? making their job easier (or at least not purposefully making it HARDER) so they can chill tf out and not work themselves ragged as much. give them time to just pretend to look busy or chit chat. or just slow down a bit when theyre grabbing the carts instead of trying to hurry because “god theres so many carts on the grass today what is WRONG with people”.
(also “”“fresh air”“” yeah these people are having to do a fucking workout out there and sometimes when its 90°, fuck 100° out. does that sound like fucking fresh air to you???)
Also people gotta internalize that, for massive corporations, there is no amount of damage you can do that they will notice. Even if leaving the carts did somehow increase labor hours by a large amount it wouldn’t prevent them from making a profit.
Walmart (as an example) makes money on an absurd scale. You could burn down one of there stores and it wouldnt register as a blip on their financial radar. They are functionally untouchable, you are ONLY hurting the underpaid worker who now has to fetch the cart. No one else anywhere in the chain of command will notice.
Six wildfires are currently raging across Los Angeles county. The largest and most devastating so far have been the Palisades fire, at 15,832 acres, and Eaton fire, at 10,600 acres, but other blazes – particularly the growing Hurst fire and Hollywood Hills-based Sunset fire – are continuing to worry Los Angeles residents. Approximately 100,000 people are under evacuation order, though the number continues to shift, and 1,500 structures have been destroyed. Five fatalities have been reported.
i haven’t seen any posts about this yet on my dash so im sharing this article. many articles about the situation are being continually updated but some of them are behind paywalls so i tried grabbing some without.
i know many people think los angeles is only occupied by celebrities, and while it is true that Pacific Palisades and Malibu are affluent areas and many celebrities have in fact lost their homes or had to evacuate, please keep in mind that currently the largest fire, the Eaton fire, is affecting everyday people and spreading to the high desert. five of the fatalities are in the eaton fire, primarily because it is so rural that many locations have only a single road in and out of the neighborhoods. in a panic, many people were stuck in gridlock traffic so long they abandoned their cars, which then had to be bulldozed down to let emergency services through.
tens of thousands are experiencing rolling blackouts (including me) or complete loss of power. entire school districts are closed, even those outside the immediate fire zones due to the poor air quality. i took miss xena outside for 10 minutes to go potty while wearing a n95 (as usual, but now dual purpose) and my head is still killing me 5 hours later. xena has been kept inside the rest of the time. even though the sky where i am looked clear and blue at the time, the air is still thick with pollution. this is the Smoke & Haze forecast:
while it’s not necessarily “good” that it’s going out toward the ocean, it is a silver lining that millions of people and animals won’t be breathing it in instead. if you notice, it spreads as far south as the tip of baja california in mexico and itself is about the size of the entire state of California.
the worst part is that it’s been pretty much impossible to contain the fires at all due to the “unprecedented” windstorm, which is also partially why the fires are so bad. it’s a “perfect storm” of factors – high winds with gusts up to 100mph, humidity in single digits, drought / low rainfall, increased brush – and firefighters are stretched thin across over 100 miles, now 200 with the addition of the ventura fire. fire hydrants are empty, and the winds have been so strong that water drops from tanker planes weren’t even possible until this afternoon once the winds died down.
i know how people feel about California and los angeles on here so im just reminding that if you hear about these fires and go “lol good fuck those rich people”, like yeah i get it but also they’re not the ones being set back by this the most. they have multiple homes or can afford new ones. working class people who were forced to evacuate coming back to their home to see it smoldering lost literally everything. even if it was just the rich people, the smoke, embers, and particulates created by this insane thousand acre burn threatens the rest of us and we can’t do anything about it.
there are millions of people who live in this area across all different class disparities and races, not to mention our millions of homeless residents who have nowhere to go. many are now newly homeless, as their homes burned down. businesses, schools, and even museums have been burnt to the ground. please extend some grace to those of us affected, as the fires are still ongoing at the time of this writing (January 8th 2025, 9pm Pacific time).
amhrancas 